History Characters / BlackRockShooterAnime

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* AnArmAndALeg: She's partially responsible for IB★RS losing an arm. IB★RS then gets revenge.

* {{BFG}}: The ★Rock Cannon.

** UnsexySadist: She's definitely portrayed as repulsive.

** UsedToBeASweetKid: At least before the accident.

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Still as crude as before but at least she's genuinely ''TRYING'' to be nice now.

* GiantSpider: Drives a giant robot spider as a sort of chariot.
** MythologyGag: It resembles an enemy from the PSP game.

** MulticoloredHair: ...to the point where it looks pure black at the top of her head.

** PsychoPsychologist: ... but not the good kind.

Characters of the ''Franchise/BlackRockShooter'' franchise first introduced in the anime adaptations.

* DefeatMeansFriendship / HeelFaceTurn: Final episode. She returns to the real world and is promptly befriended by the others.

* FingerFirearms[=/=]GatlingGood: Can fire bullets out of her mechanical arms like miniguns.

* MyGreatestFailure / MyGreatestSecondChance: She promised to protect Yuu because she had, for a moment, suspected Yuu of burning down her house. In order to make it up to Yuu, she promised to do anything.

* CanonForeigner[=/=]{{Expy}}: She doesn't appear to be any of huke's previously created characters, but she bears a noticeable resemblance to the Apostle SZZU from [[VideoGame/BlackRockShooter the video game]].

* DissonantSerenity[=/=]TranquilFury: Despite her rage-filled expression, her telepathic communication with Mato is utterly emotionless. Justified since she doesn't actually have emotion.
* DetachmentCombat[=/=]RocketPunch: In the first few minutes, B★GS severely injures the arm IB★RS has her {{BFS}}[=/=]{{BFG}}, IB★RS's response is to RIP that arm off and throw it.

* PsychoticSmirk / SlasherSmile: She is almost always portrayed sporting this on, as opposed to her human counterpart. She occasionally does this too in the OVA. And really, her Scythe being broken didn't prevent her from licking her fingers, and then giving this to Black★Rock Shooter as if nothing happened.

* BackFromTheDead / BackForTheFinale: To help fight against the end-of-series threat.

* BackFromTheDead [[BackForTheFinale For The Finale]]: She comes back to help Mato defeat IB★RS. And of course, her head is intact.

* PunnyName / AlternateCharacterReading: Her family name, "Takanashi". (It's written "kotori-asobi", "little birds playing", but pronounced as "no hawks" - because there are no hawks where little birds play.)
** Believe it or not, it's an ''[[TruthInTelevision actual surname]]''. A variant of the same pun is used in ''Manga/{{Working}}''.

* DrivenToSuicide / HeroicSacrifice: Originally tries to kill herself to stop the real Yuu's pain. She eventually goes through with it in the final episode, literally breaking into pieces and forcing Yuu to enter the real world. However, [[DisneyDeath she is seen restored as Strength]] in TheStinger.

* TheVoiceless / TheSpeechless:
** Does not speak at all; whether she does so because she is TheStoic or because she cannot is unknown. She finally talks to Mato at the end of the OVA, although this may be because Mato is her human counterpart.
** At the end of the first anime episode it seems she's incapable of making any sound as she gets impaled by Chariot and opens her mouth in a scream but there's no sound at all, although this could be just stylistic.
** In the end of the 2012 anime, she does speak, albeit telepathically.

* DisneyDeath / UnexplainedRecovery:
** She's destroyed as Insane Black★Rock Shooter but is seen unharmed as a restored Black★Rock Shooter shortly thereafter.

* SuperStrength: May or may not have this, as in the OVA, she breaks the Dead Master's chains with her bare hands; however, this could just be from being a {{Determinator}}.

* TheVoiceless / TheSpeechless: Does not speak at all; whether she does so because she is TheStoic or because she cannot is unknown. She finally talks to Mato at the end of the OVA, although this may be because Mato is her human counterpart.

* AdaptationalWimp: In the OVA, Dead Master was a perfectly capable fighter. In the anime, B★RS quickly unravels the chain, and she gets carried away helplessly by Chariot's spider minions. After struggling for a ridiculously long time against the chains binding her, it seems like she might join the fight... but then she gets dragged into a fissure created by Black★Gold Saw. Though it may be justified in a sense since Yomi was in a pretty weak state.
** This no longer applies after Episode 4, where she is able to hold her own in a fight against Black★Rock Shooter.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Saya really likes drinking coffee. She frequently makes it for students who drop by the counselor's room.
** Though she reveals that she actually ''hates'' coffee when it doesn't have milk in Episode 5.

* EpiphanyTherapy: Gets over her years-long psychosis rather easily.
** She is, however, still a bit psychotic - she likes to make strange remarks from time to time that are a little disturbing.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After her other self Chariot gets her head chopped off, she loses her attachment to Yomi. She remembers that she loved her once, but she can't invoke those feelings anymore.
** She regains at least some of her memories in Episode 8.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Black★Rock Shooter killing her fledging other self caused her to lose her love for Taku, an attachment that gave her grief.
** She regains these feelings in the last episode.
* LoveConfession: She likes a boy in her class named Taku and gives him a love letter. It ends ''very'' badly when his {{Jerkass}} friends decide to mock her in front of the entire school.
** It eventually ends in an EarnYourHappyEnding for the two.

Characters of the ''Franchise/BlackRockShooter'' first introduced in the anime adaptations.

* LoadBearingBoss: Her lair starts crumbling after she escapes Yomi's body and dissolves.

Main human characters who attend Mato's school.

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